The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-07
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

MISS ELEANOR H. HARRISON, a grad.
uate of Smith College. will fill the
position of teacher of composition and
rhetoric at the Buffalo Female Acad.
envy.
Mrs. MARYS. kNAGGs edits "Wom-
ans World column i'm the Bay City
(Mich.) Tribune, which is rich with
varied interest, and we'll sustained
Vomdn's Journal.
NORA NJ. CROWLEY, of Cincinnati,
sister of Rev. Father Crowley, former.
ly of St. Patrick's Catholic Church. has
applied for naturalization papers in Or
der to perfect her application for a
Government appointment.
FANNY KEMBLE is living in England
A visit from her is expected at Lenox.
Mass. and the people there will give
her warm reception. The clock and
bell in the tower of the Congregational
Church were a present from her.
Mrs LUCAS. of London. Miss WILL
ARD. of Chicago. and Mrs. HANNAH
WHITEHALL SMITH. of Philadelphia.
have issued circular in which they
ask Christian women everywhere to
observe November IL and Is as days
of prayer for divine blessing upon
every form of temperance work in the
world.
Miss CLARA BARTON sailed on Tues
day from New York to London. Just
before sailing. she sent to the Woh,-
ans Department of Mechanics Fair
an exhibit of the Red Cross work.
which will be made in a Quicker porta-
bic barrack. This was kindly placed
at the disposal of Miss Barton by Mr..
John Hanna.
Miss ANNA c. BRACKET has been
writing recently on the luxury that is
being introduced into some education
al establishments. Miss Bracket re-
CARDS it As possible to make a person
too comfortable for his work. I'm
school" she says. "the teach is there
to teach, not to receive. nor to rest.
As well have sofas and arm-chairs in
any workshop" she adds, and she be-
lieves. for the forging of character,
we need the anvil and all the surround
ings of labor.
Mrs. MARY HAYNES JONES, wife of
the late Prof. William p. Jones. former
president of the Northwestern Female
College, at Evanston. ILL.,. and Miss
Lydia l. Jones. their adopted daugh-
ter, an alumna of the Northwestern
University. have continued to carry on
the institution. Mrs. Jones has now
become its president. At the recent
commencement of the Northwestern
University, she received the degree of
A. NJ. She graduated in 1851, from
Mt HOlyoke Seminary, and has been
in educational and literary work ever
since.
Miss ELAINE GOoDALE. who is spend
ing the first vacation she has allowed
herself since she began work among
the Indians in lecturing on the Indian
question in the East, is doing her best
to elevate the tone of the day-schools
iuaihtaiucu Oh TIC EcScENStlOuS. AC
Lower Brule. d. T., where some 1900
Indians are settled, she has had full
classes and unusal success. She is
there but sixty miles or so from Miss
Grace Howard. daughter Of Joe How
ard. the journalist, who. at Crow Greek.
has undertaken a kindred work, the
of simple remunerative
industries among Indian girls.
Miss LUCY SALMON, the new Profess
SCI Of History at Vassar College, is a
with future. Her book. 1.-The
Power Of the President"
S the clearest monograph that has ap-
oeared on that difficult subject, and is
! noteworthy production for one of the |
sex. Miss Salmon is a
graduate of Michigan University and a |
ellow of Bryn Mawr College. 1t is
by the way, that seven of the
EN- fellowships open to competition in
hat woman's college are held by grad
lates of co-educational schools. Miss
salmon is fne-looking, with q clear.
'pen face. physically and mentally